Becoming sinners [[electronic resource] ] : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / / by Joel Robbins |
Autore | Robbins Joel <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (413 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.6/09957/7 |
Collana | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity |
Soggetto topico | Christianity - Papua New Guinea - Urapmin |
Soggetto genere / forma | Ethnography |
Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
anthropology baptist missionaries christian converts christian culture christian life christian missionaries christianity cultural anthropologists cultural change cultural perspective discussion books good and evil human condition melanesian society moral torment morality and sin nonfiction papua new guinea society papua new guinea rapid change religious experiences religious studies remote tribe sinfulness social anthropology social change theoretical urapmin |
ISBN |
9786612762888
1-282-76288-5 0-520-93708-2 1-59734-483-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part one : becoming sinners -- From salt to the law : contact and the early colonial period -- Christianity and the colonial transformation of regional relations -- Revival, second stage conversion, and the localization of the Urapmin Church -- Part two : living in sin -- Contemporary Urapmin in millennial time and space -- Willfulness, lawfulness, and Urapmin morality -- Desire and its discontents : free time and Christian morality -- Rituals of redemption and technologies of the self -- Millennialism and the contest of values -- Christianity, cultural change, and the moral life of the hybrid. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783388003321 |
Robbins Joel <1961-> | ||
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Converting words [[electronic resource] ] : Maya in the age of the cross / / William F. Hanks |
Autore | Hanks William F |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (485 p.) |
Disciplina | 299.7/84215 |
Collana | The anthropology of Christianity |
Soggetto topico |
Mayas - Religion
Mayas - Colonization Christianity and other religions - Mexico - Yucatán (State) Christianity and culture - Mexico - Yucatán (State) Maya language - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - Influence on Spanish Spanish language - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - Influence on Maya Catechisms, Spanish - Mexico - Yucatán (State) |
Soggetto non controllato |
age of the cross
anthropology bilingual dictionaries catechisms christian missionaries christianity colonial mayans colonialism cultural conquest cultural conversion forbidden books historical history of christianity indigenous literature language and culture language of rebellion latin american history linguistics maya nonfiction account religious conversion religious history spanish colonization translation yucatec maya |
ISBN |
1-282-46317-9
9786612463174 0-520-94491-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction The Field Of Discourse Production -- 2. Perpetual Reducción In A Land Of Frontiers -- 3. To Make Themselves New Men -- 4. From Field To Genre And Habitus -- 5. First Words From Spanish Into Maya -- 6. Commensuration Maya As A Matrix Language -- 7. The Grammar Of Reducción And The Art Of Speaking -- 8. The Canonical Word -- 9. The Scripted Landscape -- 10. Petitions As Prayers In The Field Of Reducción -- 11. Cross Talk In The Books Of Chilam Balam -- Epilogue Full Circle -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786714703321 |
Hanks William F | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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